A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Ball pythons are one of the most common snakes that reptile owners are attracted to. This is for good reason: ball pythons are one of the easiest snakes to own in terms of handling, care, diet, and ...

On Monday, Sept. 29, an In-N-Out employee at the burger chain's newest Monrovia location east of Los Angeles discovered a nearly 4-foot-long ball python in the drive-thru. The snake was retrieved by ...

Ramirez took the snake home and named it Dolly Python. He had recently lost custody of his pet frogs in a break-up, so the ...

Hawaii does not have native snake populations, so any report of a snake on the loose is cause for alarm. That certainly was the case Sunday after a Honolulu-area homeowner spotted a 3-1/2-foot ball ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

Fast food workers got a large-scale surprise when they spotted a massive python slithering around an In-N-Out burger joint in ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.